APIs to Learn

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GigaOM Interviews Ray Ozzie

The interview focuses on the next steps in the OS and most interestingly on cloud computing.
In particular I liked the part about Amazon’s ability to make money on AWS
OM: When do you think utility computing can be a profitable business; are we’re looking at like maybe two years, four years out before it actually [...]

Verizon Fios Redirection Problems

Verizon has decided that it knows how best to redirect my typos - right to a Verizon yahoo page.
I didn’t ask for this nor do I want it. It wasn’t clear in any TOS that I saw, but may be in there.
This is why we have class action lawsuits. If Verizon [...]

Conversation Feeds

Dennis McDonald writes about Speedbumps on the Way to Creating a Blog Based Micro-Community. He describes how he and another blogger tried to create a conversation across two blogs and then integrate the posts and comments into one single conversation supported by a feed.
He wants what I call a conversation feed. I [...]

More evidence that Obama represents something big

I got involved with Twitter this weekend - I was surprised to find it engaging. I saw this on their blog.

Seems to me that Obama represents something big. (BTW - I did vote for him because I think we don’t need more Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton legacy going on. Hillary has brains and [...]

Introducing Ta.gg

I just put the finishing touches on a beta version of Ta.gg. Ta.gg is a short URL service that takes long URLs and turns them into short URLs.
I choose the domain because it is the shortest domain I could find when spelled on a standard cell phone key pad. On my Razr, spelling [...]

Must Read - Andrew Olmsted’s Final Post

Army Major Andrew Olmsted was killed in Iraq on January 3rd, 2008. I did not know Major Olmsted, but was led to his Final Post by the Scobleizer. Major Olmstead’s Final Post is something we all should read. Sad, inspiring and a testament to someone who must have been a fine [...]